After a brief period atSotheby's andFreud Communications, he began working in television as a researcher and was commissioned to direct and produce Champagne and Canvas, a documentary that was nominated for best video at the 1998 BBC British Short Film Festival. Since then, he has worked as a freelance director, producer, and writer in both film and TV, and also combines his media career with the management of the MacLeod Estate which he took on in 2008.
TheLatin motto,murus aheneus esto, translates into English as "be thou a wall of brass".[2] The 1st and 4th quarters represent Clan MacLeod; the 2nd and 3rd quarters represent theroyal Manx heritage of the clan.
A bull's head cabossedsable, hornedOr, between two flagsgules, staves of the first.[3]
Escutcheon
Quarterly; 1st and 4th,azure, a castles triple-towered and embattledargent, masoned sable, windows and porch gules; 2nd and 3rd, gules, three legs in armour proper, garnished and spurred Or, flexed and conjoined in triangle at the upper part of the thigh.[3]
Supporters
Two lions reguardant gules, armed and langued azure, each holding a dagger proper.[3]
Motto
Hold fast (above the crest); murus aheneus esto (on a compartment below the shield).[3]
^abcdeDewar, Peter Beauclerk (2001).Burke's landed gentry of Great Britain: together with members of the titled and non-titled contemporary establishment (19, illustrated ed.).Burke's Peerage & Gentry. pp. 941–942.ISBN978-0-9711966-0-5.
